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Michael Phelps won this many Olympic gold medals in his career.
What is 23?
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat” comes from this 1975 Spielberg film.
What is Jaws?
In 2014, millions of people dumped buckets of ice water on their heads to raise awareness and money for this disease.
What is ALS?
What does this Python line print:
print("tseb eht si essej"[::-1])
What is “jesse is the best”?
([::-1] reverses the whole string.)
Counting its overseas territories, this country spans more time zones than any other.
What is France?
Paul Revere’s 1775 ride warned that these troops were coming.
Who are the British?
This is the only letter that doesn't appear in any US state name.
What is Q?
This number was worn by Wayne Gretzky and retired league-wide by the NHL.
What is 99?
“Life is like a box of chocolates” comes from this 1994 Best Picture winner.
What is Forrest Gump?
On the YouTube show Hot Ones, celebrities answer Sean Evans’s questions while eating progressively hotter versions of this food.
What are chicken wings?
This code crashes. Name the error.
fruits = ["apple", "banana", "cherry"]
print(fruits[3])
What is an IndexError (list index out of range)? (Indexes start at 0, so the last valid one is 2.)
There’s a real town called Hell in this US state.
What is Michigan?
This French queen is wrongly credited with saying “Let them eat cake.”
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This actor played Walter White in Breaking Bad.
Who is Bryan Cranston?
In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke MLB’s color barrier with this team.
What are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
In Anchorman, Brian Fantana’s cologne, which “works 60% of the time, every time,” is named after this animal.
What is a Panther?
In Shrek, Lord Farquaad rules this suspiciously perfect, theme-park-style kingdom.
What is Duloc?
Solve for n so this prints 120.
total = 1
for i in range(1, n + 1):
total *= i
print(total)
What is 5? (It’s 5 factorial.)
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is in this state.
What is Massachusetts?
Juneteenth became a federal holiday in this year.
What is 2021?
This is the only US state that is the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost at once.
What is Alaska?
This is the only nation to have played in every men’s FIFA World Cup.
What is Brazil?
Tarantino’s first feature as director, it was famously shot almost entirely in a warehouse and never shows the robbery it’s built around.
What is Reservoir Dogs?
A Florida teen told the audience to "cash me outside" on this TV Talk Show.
What is Dr. Phil?
Nintendo started in 1889 making this kind of product.
What is Playing Cards?
This is the only country in the world whose name begins with the letter Q.
What is Qatar?
In 1932, the Australian military lost a “war” against these birds.
What are emus?
This is the one temperature where Fahrenheit and Celsius are equal.
What is -40?
After retiring from the NBA in 1993, Michael Jordan played minor league baseball for this team.
Who are the Birmingham Barons?
In Napoleon Dynamite, Napoleon’s pet llama goes by this name.
Who is Tina?
The 2011 viral song “Friday” made this teenager the internet’s most-watched, most-mocked singer of the year.
Who is Rebecca Black?
This loop never stops. What single line is missing?
i = 0
while i < 5:
print(i)
What is i += 1?
You drive from Detroit into Windsor, Ontario. In this compass direction.
What is south?
Because of a sharp curve in the Detroit River, a portion of southern Ontario dips directly beneath Michigan. This creates a famous geographical anomaly.
Alexander the Great was tutored as a boy by this Greek philosopher.
Who is Aristotle?
The “wasabi” served at most sushi restaurants is often really this, dyed green.
What is horseradish?
This athlete is the only one to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.
Who is Deion Sanders?
This actor won Best Actor for a role with only about 16 minutes of screen time, one of the shortest winning performances ever.
Who is Anthony Hopkins?
Google’s founders first nicknamed their search engine this.
What is BackRub?
The 1976 Apple I originally sold for this oddly specific price.
What is $666.66?
Name the three South American countries the equator passes through.
What are Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil?
Ben Franklin grumbled that the bald eagle had bad moral character and said this bird would have made a better national symbol.
What is the turkey?
This is the only country whose national flag isn’t a rectangle or square.
What is Nepal?